I have been blogging a little obsessively lately, begging the question: does Sahar have a life away from the computer? So my first resolution of 2009 was to spend at least one day a week without logging into my account. It was a tough 24 hours – it felt more like a year (pun TOTALLY… Read More New Year’s 2009 Resolution number 1
Are we seriously surprised that I chose number 2 as my personal top pick from this list? 2. Civil war displaces a million Congolese Despite the January peace agreement between rebel and government forces, fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has grown steadily worse this year, and in August the cease-fire officially crumbled. By… Read More Top Ten Underreported News Stories
While I doubt books are going to become extinct anytime soon, the industry will most certainly change in the upcoming years. Just like television and Internet have changed the book publishing landscape, so will blogs and digital books. This pains me, because I have always loved books. But it seems to me that, in an… Read More Murderer!
My hands-down favorite made number 9 on the Times’ list. 9. An Audacious Rescue in Colombia Footage of her three years as a captive of the narco-Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) paint Ingrid Betancourt with a Modigliani melancholy, attenuated in appearance as well as loneliness. She had been a candidate for the country’s… Read More Top 10 News Stories
I’m not going to put all Ten from the Times’ list, but I am going to quote one of my favorites, number 9: Duke University officials were caught off guard in August when, an hour before a football game kickoff, two men parachuted into the stadium and landed at the 35-yard line with a ball.… Read More Top Ten Awkward Moments of 2008
Number 2? Seriously? Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin impression only made it to number 2? I’m going to sulk now. 2. Tina Plays Palin Tina Fey must have pinched herself when John McCain selected Sarah Palin to be his vice-presidential running mate, and not just because the resemblance between the two is so striking it spawned… Read More Top Ten Late Night Gags
It’s that time of the year again! What made it in 2008! While Sahar’s blog has been doing quite well, it hasn’t *quite* made it to the Top Ten Blogs of 2008 (it’s up to you lovely WONDERFUL readers to help me make it so for 2009!). I have looked for a lot of Top… Read More 2008 in (almost) all its glory
I remember reading, a long time ago, an article about Toyota’s new car, the IQ. I couldn’t help myself: I immediately saw it as a declaration of war on the Smart Car. The subsequent visual of an arm-wrestling match (or the car equivalent of an arm) between a Smart Car and a Toyota IQ still… Read More If your IQ is high, does that make you Smart? Not according to Toyota!
The best part about blogging is that you don’t have to be a journalist or an author with an officially recognised website. You can be mister or miss anyone, have an opinion and post it on your own blog. While there are many blogs out there that are onlines diaries, many others that are ramblings… Read More The power of blogging when it is well used: A fellow blogger’s response to an AP article
I love humour. It’s such a great way to highlight some of the nonsense that floats around a little too heavily in our world today. I recently found a really funny take on Climate Change I’d encourage you to check out, here and here. Enjoy!